Mountainside Memorial Sanatorium

This beautiful Neo-Classical/Southern Plantation style hospital started out as a TB Sanatorium when it opened in September of 1912. The money was put forward personally by the then mayor of Buffalo NY to build a facility outside of the city to control the TB outbreak. The complex was modeled after southern plantations and located on a mountaintop so patients could be exposed to fresh and clean air. The complex had a total of 44 building on over 500 acres of land. The hospital operated as a sanatorium until the outbreak was controlled in 1952. It was then transferred to the State of New York and opened as a developmental center. The hospital was closed in 1998 by the state and now sits like a white elephant in the small rural upstate town.